Best restaurant if you're paying

Tiny Thai (Winooski) & The Mad Taco (Montpelier, Waitsfield)

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Tiny Thai —
You can get dinner for two — and leave with leftovers — for less than $40 at this family-run Thai restaurant. And it’s BYOB, so there’s never a bar bill. It does a bustling take-out business, too.